Clinical experience with the first combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanner in Australia. 2005

W F Eddie Lau, and David S Binns, and Robert E Ware, and Shakher Ramdave, and Florent Cachin, and Alexander G Pitman, and Rodney J Hicks
Department of Radiology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC. Eddie.Lau@petermac.org

Metabolic imaging with fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is increasing rapidly worldwide because of superior accuracy compared with conventional non-invasive techniques used for evaluating cancer. Limited anatomical information from FDG-PET images alone dictates that complementary use with structural imaging is required to optimise benefit. Recently, combined positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanners have overtaken standalone PET scanners as the most commonly purchased PET devices. We describe our experience of over 5500 scans performed since the first PET/CT scanner in Australia was commissioned at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (PMCC), Melbourne, in January 2002. Clinical indications for PET/CT scans performed at PMCC largely reflect current Medicare reimbursement policy. Advantages of PET/CT include greater patient comfort and higher throughput, greater diagnostic certainty and accuracy, improved biopsy methods, and better treatment planning. We believe PET/CT will underpin more effective and efficient imaging paradigms for many common tumours, and lead to a decrease in imaging costs.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007349 Insurance, Health, Reimbursement Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988) Health Insurance Reimbursement,Reimbursement, Health Insurance,Third-Party Payments,Third-Party Payers,Health Insurance Reimbursements,Insurance Reimbursement, Health,Insurance Reimbursements, Health,Payer, Third-Party,Payers, Third-Party,Payment, Third-Party,Payments, Third-Party,Reimbursements, Health Insurance,Third Party Payers,Third Party Payments,Third-Party Payer,Third-Party Payment
D009369 Neoplasms New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. Benign Neoplasm,Cancer,Malignant Neoplasm,Tumor,Tumors,Benign Neoplasms,Malignancy,Malignant Neoplasms,Neoplasia,Neoplasm,Neoplasms, Benign,Cancers,Malignancies,Neoplasias,Neoplasm, Benign,Neoplasm, Malignant,Neoplasms, Malignant
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001315 Australia The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra. Canton and Enderbury Islands,Christmas Island,Christmas Island (Australia)
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D015203 Reproducibility of Results The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results. Reliability and Validity,Reliability of Result,Reproducibility Of Result,Reproducibility of Finding,Validity of Result,Validity of Results,Face Validity,Reliability (Epidemiology),Reliability of Results,Reproducibility of Findings,Test-Retest Reliability,Validity (Epidemiology),Finding Reproducibilities,Finding Reproducibility,Of Result, Reproducibility,Of Results, Reproducibility,Reliabilities, Test-Retest,Reliability, Test-Retest,Result Reliabilities,Result Reliability,Result Validities,Result Validity,Result, Reproducibility Of,Results, Reproducibility Of,Test Retest Reliability,Validity and Reliability,Validity, Face
D015898 Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed X-ray image-detecting devices that make a focused image of body structures lying in a predetermined plane from which more complex images are computed. CAT Scanners, X-Ray,CT Scanner, X-Ray,Computed Tomography Scanners, X-Ray,Tomography, Computed, Scanners,Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Scanners,CAT Scanner, X-Ray,Computed Tomography Scanner, X-Ray,Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Scanner,X-Ray Computed Tomography Scanner,X-Ray Computed Tomography Scanners,CAT Scanner, X Ray,CAT Scanners, X Ray,CT Scanner, X Ray,CT Scanners, X-Ray,Computed Tomography Scanner, X Ray,Computed Tomography Scanners, X Ray,Scanner, X-Ray CAT,Scanner, X-Ray CT,Scanners, X-Ray CAT,Scanners, X-Ray CT,Tomography Scanners, X Ray Computed,X Ray Computed Tomography Scanner,X Ray Computed Tomography Scanners,X-Ray CAT Scanner,X-Ray CAT Scanners,X-Ray CT Scanner,X-Ray CT Scanners
D049268 Positron-Emission Tomography An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. It has been useful in study of soft tissues such as CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and brain. SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY is closely related to positron emission tomography, but uses isotopes with longer half-lives and resolution is lower. PET Imaging,PET Scan,Positron-Emission Tomography Imaging,Tomography, Positron-Emission,Imaging, PET,Imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography,PET Imagings,PET Scans,Positron Emission Tomography,Positron Emission Tomography Imaging,Positron-Emission Tomography Imagings,Scan, PET,Tomography Imaging, Positron-Emission,Tomography, Positron Emission
D019275 Radiopharmaceuticals Compounds that are used in medicine as sources of radiation for radiotherapy and for diagnostic purposes. They have numerous uses in research and industry. (Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p1161) Radiopharmaceutical
D019788 Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 The compound is given by intravenous injection to do POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY for the assessment of cerebral and myocardial glucose metabolism in various physiological or pathological states including stroke and myocardial ischemia. It is also employed for the detection of malignant tumors including those of the brain, liver, and thyroid gland. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p1162) 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose,18FDG,2-Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose,2-Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose,Fludeoxyglucose F 18,18F-FDG,Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose,Fluorodeoxyglucose F 18,2 Fluoro 2 deoxy D glucose,2 Fluoro 2 deoxyglucose,F 18, Fludeoxyglucose,F 18, Fluorodeoxyglucose,F18, Fluorodeoxyglucose,Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose,Fluorodeoxyglucose, 18F

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